The Side of the Road ...

I almost threw this picture away.

I found it in Grandma G's album of a road trip she and Grandpa G took in 1981.

The shot was taken next to a road ...

Somewhere in the Southwest US.

It looked rather boring and plain.

Then I looked closer. At the little windmill in the center. At the dry creek bed, and the tire tracks going up the hill behind ...

I noticed the sagebrush and imagined the scent ...

Then I noticed the split beam guardrail. Wow. No metal here!

I decided this is a picture worth keeping.

And scanning to share on Jane's "Vintage Weekly"!!!

Pear Avenue

This is another photo (Polaroid this time!) that I found in Grampa and Grandma G's old photo album from their Western US road trip back in the late early 1980's.

The tiny sign in the middle of this barren looking area reads ...

"Pear Ave".

I don't see any pear trees ...

But then it doesn't look much like an "avenue" to me either!

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Reflections of a Bridge ... Weekend Reflections

This is another of Grandma G's pictures from a road trip she and Grampa G. took back in 1981. I don't know where this picture was taken ... and since they traveled through at least 5 Western US states, it could pretty much be anywhere!

But I can still appreciate the beauty of the reflections ... no matter where or when they were found!

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